"When it comes to safety, it turns out that the web is no different than the physical world. There are safe neighborhoods and safe web domains, and then there are places no one should ever visit."

Three of the five least risky country domains are Nordic countries - 0.10% of sites registered at Finland's domain are risky, compared to Norway's 0.16% and Sweden's 0.21%. That compares to Tokelau's 10.1%.

Iceland (0.19%) and Ireland (0.11%) round out the top five least dangerous, while the UK is the 51st most risky.

McAfee said higher levels of risk tend to be driven by low or no-cost domain registration and a lack of domain oversight.

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